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H&H’s guide to M&M large breed classes, including tips to ensure you make an instant impact and help you avoid any pitfalls:
Breeds and origins
M&M ponies form a group of several breeds of ponies native to the British Isles. Many of these breeds are derived from semi-feral ponies kept on moorland or heathland, and some of them still live in this way, as well as many now being kept as fully domesticated animals for riding and driving purposes.
Connemara ponies come from County Galway in western Ireland
Highland ponies hail from Scotland